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A sequel to "The Flower Net". As Hulan Liu becomes more involved in her life in China - back in the village that had such a pivotal effect on her past - a continent away, David Stark feels her slipping from him. And he struggles to persuade Hulan to emigrate, with their unborn child, to America.
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A sequel to "The Flower Net". As Hulan Liu becomes more involved in her life in China - back in the village that had such a pivotal effect on her past - a continent away, David Stark feels her slipping from him. And he struggles to persuade Hulan to emigrate, with their unborn child, to America.
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The Interior
by Lisa See

The Interior

This is truly a view into the 'interior" of present-day China. Ms See has captured many of the aspects of China's attempt to change from a state-controlled economy to one that allows more individual actions in business. This has been a blessing- small business owners can now market their goods and make a profit from doing so without "Big Brother" looking over their shoulder. Unfortunately, "Big Business" is capable of moving into areas (like the interior of China) that are ill-equiped both in terms of management and in terms of worker safety so that they might make great profits.This book, and Ms See's others in this series are not available in China. After reading it, it is easy to see that a government that is bent on controlling its populace would feel threatened by such a story.Ms See tells a good tale in the general area of the mystery story. Her characters are believable (sometimes to the point of being annoying) and capable of generating considerable interest in "what's going to happen next?"I certainly would recommend this book to a wide range of people: Those who want a "good read" in the mystery story genre, those who want some insight into contemporary China, as well as those who would just like to read a well-written story told be an excellent story-teller.

Publishers Weekly, 1999-08-16As in her debut novel, Flower Net, the strength of See's work here is in her detailed and intimate knowledge of contemporary China, its mores, its peculiar mixture of the traditional and the contemporary, and its often bedeviled relationships with the U.S. Here again are American lawyer David Stark and his Chinese lover, police investigator Liu Hulan; they become involved in the issue of working conditions among women in an American-owned toy factory in rural China?a highly promising and original notion. Stark's law firm wants him to supervise the buyout of the American entrepreneur who launched the toy company, while Liu is called in by the mother of a factory worker who seems to have committed suicide. What actually happened to her, and why? It seems inevitable that the lovers will be pulled in different directions by their opposing interests, and soon Liu has introduced herself into the factory as a worker, while Stark's deal, important to his career, begins to unravel. So far, so good; but as the action becomes increasingly violent, with another girl's sudden death at the factory, gunplay, a deathly sick Liu struggling to survive, and a climactic fire that takes hundreds of lives (a calamity treated almost as an afterthought), it becomes apparent that See has plotting problems. Many story threads seem to disappear, the action scenes are stagy and unconvincing, and the David-Liu relationship never seems to generate much real warmth. A pity, because until the melodrama takes over, much here is original and fresh, an absorbing look at an unfamiliar world. Agent, Sandra Dijkstra. 6-city author tour. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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